obsolete: extract encoding of marker for pushkey from the list key function We now have a function taking a list and marker and returning an encoded version. This will allow obsolescence marker exchange experimentation to easily pushkey-encode markers to be pushed after selection.

solaris: diff -u emits "No differences encountered" Solaris diff -u isn't silent when two files are identical, and tests that don't account for that will fail. Fix those tests, and introduce a check that prevents reintroduction.

rebase: do not raise an UnboundLocalError when called wrong (issue4106) When the base is not found, we should not raise a traceback about a not defined variable. This hides the real problem: the function rebasenode was (probably) called wrong. An AssertionError is raised to highlight that the caller of the function did something wrong. An alternative approach is to only assign None to the variable "base" and let the merge mechanism raise an abort message. This was the behaviour for this case before ad9db007656f. But the only known case for this problem is when an extension calls this function wrong. An AssertionError makes this clearer than an abort message. When a different case is detected, the behaviour can be improved then.